30 responses on “Previewing and activating themes”

Here’s my first post. Using my iPhone, I was attempting, just because, to change the template of one of my blogs. When it brought up the floating “preview”, there was no way i was able to apply the change.

Anyone else have this issue? Have a solution? Well, i really don’t need a solution, i can’t imagine that many instances/situations where i would need to change a template via my iPhone, but thought what the heck, someone here might.

Very good. Especially for bloggers that are new to WordPress. Keep it up wordpress. Probably some links will be more helpful, like they have in YouTube. The links are intregrated into the videos. Food for thougth. Remember that newcomers might just got frustrated to go around unguided and leave. Ciao.

Nice video, Michael. Have a small problem. I started with one of the default theme that had a customizable banner. I loaded in a photo, it showed up nicely. Then I tried out another theme with a customizable banner. Looked even better, and my photo was there in the banner. But when I intalled the theme, my custom photo was not there, although my content showed up fine.

Any ideas? I don’t want to import the photo in again, it is already in my media directory.

Thanks, Michael! The email notification about new comments here included several links that were really helpful. I had not found anything that met my needs when I searched in the WordPress.com support area. This link is really excellent. Thanks so much! Here is what I copied out of the email, since it didn’t appear in your message above.

Hi, Creative Cat – the links are there, they just need better colour differentiation by the look of it. I’ll speak to the design wizards. If you roll over the text you’ll see that the links are active.

Michael, re: rolling over links in these replies to see them…. I’m not sure what you see on your monitor, but the messages just end before the links are shown. There is no “blank” space for the links to be shown, in whatever color. I see this in your message on Feb 4, as well as my later message on the same day.

I’m having trouble finding the comicpress theme that I have downloaded to my hard drive, and (as far as I know), in the appropriate folder. I got it to work yesterday and then something happened and it went away. Any ideas?

Run a quick search for it on your computer, and if all else fails, download it again. If you need further help with theming and your WordPress installation, feel free to visit the WordPress.org support forums. You’ll likely be able to find the best answers for your questions there.

I got it to work on Saturday. Something happened when I was filling in some of my info (don’t ask me what page it was. That was about a hundred pages ago) and it got messed up. I lost the page. So I ended up starting a new blog and now, when I go to the page where I’m supposed to be adding the theme, there’s no option to do it. I’ve deleted the Comicpress file and downloaded it again, about three time. It’s in the “themes” folder within one of the WordPress folders within the Sites folder. I downloaded the WordPress Manager and installed it in the Plug-in folder, right next to the Themes folder.

One shortcut on the ComicPress download page says to click on the “plug ins” option in my account and do it from there. Again, no such option.

I have so many friends who’ve been successful with this and I’ve never heard about it being so hard. What’s up? I’m running it from a Mac and have downloaded, installed and set up MAMP as well.